Example sentences of "[verb] to the main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not instrumental music per se that gave Italy its centuries of primacy , though it contributed to the main form in which that primacy was manifested ; it was the continuing drive to make music express poetic texts . |
| 2 | She could get them to broadcast an announcement for her , spread the word around the gallery that Mr James Worsdale was to come to the main entrance . |
| 3 | ‘ Would all emergency and medical staff please report to the main entrance of the factory ? |
| 4 | Added to the main Bill were six miscellaneous sections . |
| 5 | Point of view ( 00 … ) may either be added to the main number or used in conjunction with the colon to given an extended facet indicator . |
| 6 | The Version table records the date on which a new version of an entry was added to the main archive . |
| 7 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 8 | You then have the option to type in either one or two lines of text , before returning to the main menu . |
| 9 | Cutaways are a means of bridging jump-cuts , that is interruptions or discontinuities in the action , by briefly cutting to some related subject before returning to the main subject . |
| 10 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 11 | I can not see ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ returning to the main line until at least 1995 . |
| 12 | Returning to the main theme , we have discovered that natural monopolies can coexist with almost perfectly contestable industries . |
| 13 | Returning to the main cavern at a dead run , Ace threw herself to the side as a cluster of boxes not far off exploded with a sharp blast , hurling several of the defenders into he oily waters . |
| 14 | Returning to the main street , I browsed among the many little shops I found there . |
| 15 | Second , there are larger particles about 2 microns diameter largely confined to the main cloud each particle probably consisting of a liquid droplet of rather impure H 2 SO 4 with up to 20% of other substances . |
| 16 | Descend to the main road . |
| 17 | Reverting to the main line working though , there is only one known occasion when a GWR design outside cylinder mixed traffic 4–6–0 engine succeeded in traversing the North Wales coast . |
| 18 | The Editing Commissions reported to the Main Committee , the Main Committee to the State Council , and the tsar signed the completed legislation on 19 February 1861 . |
| 19 | It aims to relate to the main area of the job description , but also leaves space for people to say what seems to them significant with more freedom . |
| 20 | This corresponds to the main character 's own personal situation of being without a man . |
| 21 | When the stitch is transferred to the main bed needle , the main bed needle comes forward to slide into the gap below the transfer needle and between the metal strips . |
| 22 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 23 | When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive . |
| 24 | A distinction is made between temporary versions of an entry , which will have a short life-span in the Working-Set , and permanent versions of an entry which are transferred to the Main Database . |
| 25 | The order of service in the Primers had developed from monastic devotions , added to the main office from the eighth century onwards , to remember the dead ( the office of the dead ) , and to celebrate understanding of the role of the Virgin Mary in the working of the faith — the Hours of the Virgin . |
| 26 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
| 27 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 28 | Then he had watched them walk to the main room with their arms around each other and kiss in the warm light before closing the door behind them . |
| 29 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 30 | Another worker — off sick after being the victim of a hit-and-run accident — was also made redundant by the bank , the NatWest , according to the main banking union . |